People cook a giant 150-meter-long "shashlik" meal in Kyiv, Ukraine. Participants broke the national record of the longest shashlik cooked during the event. Shashlik is a variety of skewered meat traditionally eaten in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) region.

Spectators (bottom) watch skiers descending down from the slope while holding lit torches during an annual winter torch festival in the town of Zheleznogorsk, some 50km (31 miles) northeast of Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.

Children smile pose for a photograph during their pre-school graduation at Childhood Kindergarten in Phan Thiet, the capital of Bình Thuận province in southeastern Vietnam. (Photo by Nguyễn Thái Bình/Vietnam/VOA reader)

Macedonian riot police clash with ethnic Albanians during a demonstration in Skopje. A demonstration was organized by ethnic Albanians in support of the new Defense Minister, former guerrilla commander Talat Xhaferi, according to local media.